I think you can spin this with semantics any way you want. The intent here is meant to insult the person not playing your way by calling them cowards. The rage against carebears isn't that they are "role-playing cowards", it is the attitude that these players have that drive you to say such hateful drivel against them. And Kaarous is no new face at this.

Not everyone finds douchbaggery acceptable behavior. And the kicker is this doesn't make them cowards for thinking this way.

... pressuring people to change their playstyle is changing gameplay, though. an enormous amount of eve's content is created by the players, and trying to manipulate the way people play space jerk simulator 2k14 for the greater good is just silly

The person who has posted all about the "society of takers" ruining the game for all the "victims" doesn't get to tell anyone else that they have a persecution complex.

You're quite literally acting one out right now for us.

I mean, if things were in any way what you were describing, where we're over hunting our prey, you'd think we would end up with less ALODs, less afk miners, and less autopiloting freighers. Instead of more. There are so many people out there worth killing that I couldn't even clean out Molden Heath if I had a CONCORD battleship. You guys literally choke the spacelanes in some systems *cough Jita* and you think there are "too many predators"?

You make a lot of assumptions off a simple mathematical theory.

More like I've heard more than enough snide suggestions hidden behind "concern" in my lifetime.

Especially when you predicate it with the assumption that the first guy who scams or steals is only because he sucks at everything else. Your opinion isn't even well hidden.

Well, the wiki entry for EVE says that the subscriber numbers were officially released in December of 2013. So it hasn't been released yet.

Last year was an exception that we heard about early since they hit a nice milestone. But if you think you can interpret silence as being support for your agenda, you are a long way off, Scope.

Thanks! Here's looking forward to December 2014, if the doors are still open.

Thanks! Here's looking forward to December 2014, if the doors are still open.

I guess the number usually released with the CSM election was just overlooked.

But who cares? Subscriber numbers mean nothing to content, right? It's those pesky login's creating content.

Yep. CCP doesn't need their money.

Anyone seen a legit subscriber count in a while? No? Didn't CCP brag, errr, publish that number every year?

CCP never needed 'their' money, they need money from people who would actually like EVE. CCP could do a better job at reaching out to such people, probably at prisons and biker bars.

In hindsight, I wonder what kind of game Eve would be today if the original ambiance and intended lore stayed with the game instead of being phased out. That is, the transportation and usage of drugs in high sec space, finding "prostitutes", and other aspects found in the old Chronicles brought forth into the game. But instead, we now have a warning label on the opening screen, the dark and seedy side of the game is basically removed, and CCP keeps attempting to dumb the game down to attract a lower and lower denominator since things like industry and new player experiences are just too rough for newbies now-a-days.

I was simply describing an Eco System and how that can become unbalanced, I also stated how it would rebalance itself. I never said there were too many gankers or that there were too many carebears, just that if a Risk/Reward activity is unbalanced it would attract more players to that activity.

You make a lot of assumptions off a simple mathematical theory.

I want my transparent Gallente dresses back plz.

It's not that CCP has given the Asylum keys to the patients, well maybe it is exactly like that, but that was probably not the original intent. But it is what we have now, and new players are more and more likely to be victims since the demographic is prone to unbalance in the side of predators and not to the builders/explorers.

CCP never needed 'their' money, they need money from people who would actually like EVE. CCP could do a better job at reaching out to such people, probably at prisons and biker bars.

That money doesn't exist.

I have seen all these arguments before with SWG. That game shows that the fabled bigger playerbase does not exist and ripping out the core of a game only results in that game losing its current player base and going belly up.

That money doesn't exist.

I have seen all these arguments before with SWG. That game shows that the fabled bigger playerbase does not exist and ripping out the core of a game only results in that game losing its current player base and going belly up.

I want my transparent Gallente dresses back plz.

You're right. EVE is on the path that it is. Can't turn back at this point. Hence why I'm not suggesting a 180 turn like with Galaxies.

What I am saying is: people that play EVE should probably work on being a nicer kind of ******* to one another.

You're right. EVE is on the path that it is. Can't turn back at this point. Hence why I'm not suggesting a 180 turn like with Galaxies.

What I am saying is: people that play EVE should probably work on being a nicer kind of ******* to one another.

Sure, the second they stop spewing death threats and sexual insults in local when someone uses the "P word".

Eve has a problem with its reputation....

Seriously?

EVE is the dark haired, totally hot emo gothchild of the gaming community.

Shunned by the Ignorati, the emotionally stunted, and vapid pink clad bimbettes, she doesn't give a ****, because as she sashays down the corridors of the gaming community singing to a tune only she understands, she knows that with a look and a crooked smile, she could own them all heart and eternal soul.

Nah, that adds flavour. I awoxed a bunch of Orca's one night & the husband/wife combo that ran the corp accussed me of raping their daughter irl. You just don't get that level of crazy anywhere else.

EvE's reputation is one of its biggest, if not the biggest, selling point

The person who has posted all about the "society of takers" ruining the game for all the "victims" doesn't get to tell anyone else that they have a persecution complex.

You're quite literally acting one out right now for us.

I mean, if things were in any way what you were describing, where we're over hunting our prey, you'd think we would end up with less ALODs, less afk miners, and less autopiloting freighers. Instead of more. There are so many people out there worth killing that I couldn't even clean out Molden Heath if I had a CONCORD battleship. You guys literally choke the spacelanes in some systems *cough Jita* and you think there are "too many predators"?